1.BA History part 1=> paper 2 is about all History of Rajasthan (from Ancient to 1956).

2.MA History paper 5: Main trends in History and Culture of Rajasthan

And as long as there are BA/MA history courses in Government colleges, there will be readymade guidebooks/digests for the individual papers, right?So I suggest you visit the bookstores dealing with college books, and inquire for the guidebooks for above papers- that should serve as your ‘base’ material.Since RAS got hundreds of vacancies this time, the unscrupulous elements will recycle the same content from such BA/MA books and sell it as ‘study-material’ for Rs.2000/5000/7000 rupees depending on your desperation. So apply your head, always stick to standard reference books- they’re cheaper and more reliable for competitive exams.Additional sources:

6.Major Landmarks in the History of Rajasthan, Major Dynasties, their Administrative and Revenue System. Socio-cultural Issues.

7.Freedom Movement , Political Awakening and Integration

8.Religious Movements, Saints& Lok devtas of Rajasthan.

9.Leading Personalities of Rajasthan.

10.Important Works of Rajasthani literature. Local Dilects

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Indian History n Culture

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This topic can be subdivided into

ras mains 2013-topic wise study material

Ancient

Harappa, Vedic age etc.

Medieval

Delhi Sultanate, Mughal dynasty etc.

Modern

British Raj, freedom struggle etc.

Culture

Jainism, buddism, culture, literature, panting, dance, music etc.

·If you look at the old papers of RAS, the Indian history related MCQs are mostly “General knowledge” type.

·For example who defeated whom and when?

·So, in that regard NCERTs (under new syllabus) won’t be of much help. Because they don’t dwell much into such GK. (Although there is no harm in reading them, but on has to consider the time constrain).

·Besides, you’ve to Rajasthan state education board’s textbooks for social science /history for preparing Rajasthan’s history and culture anyways. And even in those Rajasthan state board textbook, India’s history will be covered. If you need additional reference, consult General studies manual, otherwise just leave it there.

·India Yearbook: refer to chapter 30: State and union territories =>Rajasthan. You’ll find overview of Rajasthan’s geography, irrigation etc. But for MCQs, that information alone will not suffice.

·Therefore, Use Rajasthan State education board textbooks (preferably from Class 7 to 12) related to Social science and geography subjects and prepare the following topics.

1.Broad physical features and Major physiographic divisions.

2.Natural Resource of Rajasthan-

3.Climate, Natural Vegetation, Forests, Wildlife and Bio-diversity

4.Major irrigation projects.

5.Mines and Minerals.

6.Population.

7.Major Industries and Potential for Industrial Development.

Additional preparation for Rajasthan geography:

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1.Major irrigation projects.

Chapter 15 Rajasthan State Five year plan.

2.Mines and Minerals.

Raj. Mineral department’s official websitehttp://www.dmg-raj.org/On the left hand side, there is a menu title “mineral information”, read the articles posted under it.Also prepare the overview/salient features of Rajasthan’s Mineral Development policy.

Covered under my summary of Economic Survey ch13. available on Mrunal.org/economy

2.Poverty and unemployment: Concept, Types, Causes, Remedies

Ramesh Singh chapter 22Mrunal’s summary of Economic survey ch.13.

3.(Poverty removal) Flagship Schemes.

4.Social Justice and Empowerment

5.Provisions for Weaker Sections.

Covered under Mrunal’s summary of Economic Survey ch13.

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You’ll have to again face these topics as GS Mains paper 1 under “Economic Concepts and Indian Economy”. Although in mains some new topics will also come for example Issue of NPA, Financial Inclusion, Tax Reforms in India, concept of Money supply. But pretty much all of them covered in the combination of: NCERT, Ramesh singh, Mrunal.org/economy

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Economy of Rajasthan

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For this, primary reference sources are

1.Budget speech of CM

2.Rajasthan’s Five year plan documents.

3.Newspaper.

Additionally prepare the salient features of following:

1.Rajasthan Industrial and Investment Policy

2.Policy for the Registration and Protection of Geographical Indications of Goods in Rajasthan

3.Rajasthan’s Mineral Development policy

While you read these topics, do make notes because same content is repeated in the syllabus of GS (Mains) paper 1 and 3.

this topic also re-appears in GS Mains paper 3 under the title “Current sensitive issues”.

This includes Government Welfare Schemes for SC/ST/Backward Class/Minorities/Disabled Persons, Destitute, Women, Children, Old Age People, Farmers & Labourers.

Refer to chapter 14, 20-28 of Rajasthan state five year plan, and prepare micro-notes or mindmaps containing following details about every scheme: 1)which department/ministry implements it? 2) who is the target beneficiary 3) salient features/benefits offered.

State government would publish big colourful ads in the newspapers (usually before any elections), showing their achievements and schemes. do note down the information from there too.

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Polity

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As per the RAS prelims syllabus, polity can be further classified into

1.First you read the chapter on President, Vice President and immediately move to the chapter on governor. Then read on Emergency provisions.

2.Read chapter on PM and cabinet, then move to CM and state council of Ministers.

3.Chapter on “Parliamentary system” and then directly to parliament, but after budget topic is done pause this chapter and move to on CAG. Then come back and resume the chapter on parliament.

4.Once parliament is finished, move to State legislative assembly.

5.Supreme Court and then High court, tribunals.

6.Attorney Gen =>Advocate General

7.UPSC =>State PSC

8.Finance Commission =>Planning Commission=>National Development council

9.Now Centre State relation and Interstate relations.

10.Election Commission=> chapter on election, Anti-defection

11.All the National Commissions on Women, SC, ST,OBC, CVC, Lokpal and so on.

Once ^this is done. Move to

1.Citizenship, Fundamental rights, DPSP, duties.

2.Amendment of Constitution=> preamble

3.Jammu Kashmir => Scheduled and Tribal Areas.

4.UT, Panchayati Raj, municipalities

After ^this is done. Read whatever chapters are remaining. Ultimately

·Appendix for union-state-concurrent list, table of precedence etc.

·the mock MCQ questions given in Laxmikant.

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Rajasthan state polity/administration

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It includes

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1.Governor

2.Chief Minister

3.State Assembly

4.High Court

5.Rajasthan Public Service Commission

6.State Human Rights Commission

7.State Election Commission

8.State Information Commission

The basic theory regarding power, function, appointment etc. remain one and same for all states, so refer to the relevant chapters in Indian polity by M.Laxmikanth.

Also go through the Rajasthan state education board’s social science / civics textbooks and prepare the relevant chapters.

Sometimes the state PCS exams ask GK type questions from these topics also. For example who is the current State election Commissioner or How many judges are there in Rajasthan High Court etc.

For such GK/current affairs, visit the official websites of those bodies and click on “About us”. but do that exercise, after you’ve finish the basic syllabus for the preliminary exam.

District Administration

Prepare the basic concepts, prepare chapter 15 to 18 from IGNOU BA Public Administration course code: BPAE-102. Because the same concent will also re-appear under GS Mains paper 1, subtopic “Administrative System of Rajasthan”.Also using internet find following:

·You don’t have to read the entire policy documents, just concentrate on the overview/salient-features/objectives of said policy and prepare notes out of it, for quick revision during Mains preparation.

Let’s move to next subtopic under polity:

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Rajasthan Citizen charter and Legal rights

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For Legal Rights, Prepare the salient features/overview/objectives of following:

1.Rajasthan Guaranteed Delivery of Public Services Act, 2011

2.The Rajasthan Right to Hearing Act, 2012

For Citizen Charterbasics explained herehttp://mrunal.org/2013/03/polity-citizens-charter-bill-2011-salient-features-issues-criticism-explained.htmlAnd for Rajasthan so far 32 departments have already issued such charters. And Divisional Commissioner is empowered to transfer an employee, if he/she is found negligent in implementation of citizen charters. (Although it’d be waste of time to prepare 32 department’s citizen charters for prelims, so better just ignore or may be prepare a few big ones example state department for agriculture, social-justice, tourism etc. keeping the mains syllabus in mind.)

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Science & Technology

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·The science technology (including environment-biodiversity), forms a significant part of Prelims as well as mains.

Lot of stuff related to e-governance and ICT projects has been covered in my economy survey chapter 10 (part 3 of 5) article. available on mrunal.org/economy.

for Rajasthan State government’s e-governance projects e.g. E-SANCHAR, Aarogya Online etc. refer to Chapter 27 of Rajasthan state’s five year plan and simultaneously prepare notes on it because they’ll be extremely useful for the mains.

Space-tech related Current affairs compilation from 2012 to March 2013, already given in mrunal.org/snt

Copy paste its content in MS word file. Then whatever new thing happens, you update it in your word file.

Defense Technology

Defense related Current affairs compilation from 2012 to March 2013, already given in mrunal.org/snt

Copy paste its content in MS word file. Then whatever new thing happens, you update it in your word file.

Nanotechnology

Topic available in General studies manual And or chapter 9 and 10 for Spectrum’s book on Science and Technology.

OR just google it. All you need is definition, principle and applications.

Lot of Nano-tech applications already given under my Hindu-science tech summary articles, available on mrunal.org/snt

Human body, Food and Nutrition, Health care

This already covered under NCERT science textbooks from class 7 to 10.

Union governments’ schemes related to public health, already covered under three part article series in Mrunal.org/snt

for Rajasthan governments’ schemes on public health (e.g. Mukhya Mantri Nishulk Dava Yojana, Mukhya Mantri Balika Sambal Yojana etc.) refer to Chapter 21 and 26 of Rajasthan state’s five year plan and simultaneously prepare notes on it because they’ll be extremely useful for the mains.

Environmental and Ecological Changes and its Impacts.

Biodiversity

Strategy already given under the topic title “environment and biodiversity”. Foundation from NCERT+NIOS.

Koyoto and various summits covered under mrunal.org/enb

Chapter 12 of Rajasthan state’s five year plan and simultaneously prepare notes on it because they’ll be extremely useful for the mains.

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

NCERT Botany class 12

Chapter 17 of Spectrum’s book on Science and Technology.

Agriculture,

Horticulture,

Forestry

Animal Husbandry

with special reference to Rajasthan.

Overlaps with Geography chapters that I suggested earlier.

Chapter 10, 11 and 12 of Rajasthan state’s five year plan and simultaneously prepare notes on it because they’ll be extremely useful for the mains.

For additional reference: Chapter 5 of Spectrum’s book on Science and Technology.

1.Major Current Events and Issues of State(Rajasthan), National and International

2.Persons and Places in recent news

3.Games and Sports related Activities

In 2012’s RAS prelims paper, we can see lot of current affairs questions were asked.

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How to prepare national/international current affairs?

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·Goto library, read whatever competitive magazine you get (CST, Pratiyoigta, Chronicle, Wizard) and note down important things in loose pages then file them under separate categories (person in news, books-authors, sports, international summit etc.).

·I’ve already published compilation for important persons in news, books-authors and sport from 2012 upto March 2013.

·If the time permits, also go through the first chapter (logic/syllogism)

·If you’ve already MK Pandey’s Book (analytical reasoning) as part of your SBI PO preparation, then first understand the theory from part I of his book and then use RS Aggarwal as practice work.

·For additional practice, you may also use previous years IBPS/Bank PO papers.

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Mental Ability

Topics as per official syllabus.

Approach (RS Aggarwal’s book)

1.Number series

1, 16

2.Letter series

10

3.Odd man out

Chapter 3

4.Coding-Decoding

Chapter 4

5.Problems relating to Relations

Chapter 5 and 6

6.Shapes and their sub sections.

Non-verbal reasoning section: chapter 4,7,14.

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·In above topics, there is hardly any theory or formulas. The only way to attain speed and accuracy is through practice. So do all the sums from those chapters of his book.

·Once this is done, also get an overview of other chapters of his book as well.

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Reasoning For GS Mains!

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·Curiously, RAS even has reasoning topic in its GS (Mains) Paper 2 syllabus.

·It contains all of the topics mentioned above + Venn Diagrams.

·For Venn Diagrams, do following Chapter #9 of RS Agarwal. But it only deals with Logical venn diagram and not maths based venn diagrams (e.g. in a society 30 people drink coffee and 40 drink tea then..) so for that type maths based Venn diagrams, either refer NCERT maths class 11 chapter 1 or go through your quantitative aptitude book.

·Do not just stop ^here. Because the RAS Mains GS paper II also has maths topics in its syllabus- Including Time and Work, Time, Speed and Distance, area-volume-perimeter! So while you’re in the momentum, try to finish them as well.

·Don’t just read the sums, solve them on your own. Otherwise in the exam, you’ll make silly mistakes while plugging the values in the equations and silly mistakes in calculations.

·do maintain a diary: whatever formulas, shortcut techniques, special type of questions you come across, note them here. Even note down whatever mistakes you make while solving sums- to prevent them from happening in future.

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Conclusion

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1.Good or bad, whatever was your experience with UPSC CSAT 2013, leave it there and start preparation with a fresh mind.

2.Don’t be in overconfidence that just because I’ve cracked xyz exam earlier so this is a pappu exam for me. Competition is merciless, reading-revision is necessary.

3.If you’ve applied for this exam, then focus on your studies only. Don’t waste time in day-dreaming, facebook, orkut, random net surfing, chatting, TV, cricket, weddings of distant relatives etc. Time-pass activities will always be there, but once you cross the age-limit, there is no restart button. (This rule applies to all competitive exams.)

4.When you get bored reading General studies, then solve maths / reasoning questions. when you get bored with maths / reasoning, then resume your General studies preparation.

5.I can’t do maths or I can’t do science, yeh mujse nahi hoga, woh mujse nahi hoga= these are all losers’ excuses. I’m not from a good college/ I’m not from English medium =these are all inferiority complexes. Success in Government recruitment exams only depends on your score in written exam and interview. So, avoid losers’ excuses and inferiority complexes and commit yourself to the hardwork and leave rest in the hands of God.

Go to following link: https://files.secureserver.net/0fHCh0CLd6Az63You’ll find the material organized in various folders. Click on individual folder and download zip files. Here is the description about the contents of individual folder:

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History

Contains NCERT history chapters from class 7 to 12, in three zip files: ancient, medieval and Modern

1.Majority of these PDF files provides direct copying of text. => That means you can use Mrunal’s autonotemaker to quickly make notes and mindmaps out of it, just use mouse cursor to highlight a particular line /phrase and my software will copy its text in a separate file. for more instructions click me